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Under Amazon, I would also include commoditizing compute and selling you their spare compute cycles (AWS) as their major efficiency win. Finally, Amazon is aut
by NortySpock 5y ago
Under Amazon, I would also include commoditizing compute and selling you their spare compute cycles (AWS) as their major efficiency win.
Finally, Amazon is automating warehousing in their logistics (first using automated checklists for people walking around the warehouse, now using Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems)
- scarface74 5y agoThe myth that Amazon “sold their excess computer capacity” has been disproven for years. Just think about it. If Amazon had excess computer capacity and sold it to other companies, what was it going to do when it needed that excess computer capacity? Kick others off?
- NortySpock 5y agoYes, that's what preemptible spot pricing is; you pay a discounted rate for some compute time with the knowledge that you could be bumped out at any time. Alternately, Amazon could lease time at an hourly rate which varies with available capacity; just raise the hourly rates around Christmas because you need them for your e-commerce site.
- scarface74 5y agoI know what spot pricing is. I work at AWS in Professional Services. AWS was always built from the ground up as a separate service. Amazon Retail is still migrating some of their infrastructure to AWS. It would be slightly inconvenient if customers needed more capacity at the same time that Amazon Retail needed more capacity. https://readwrite.com/2012/04/26/popping-the-amazon-web-services-capacity-myth/ https://readwrite.com/2012/04/26/popping-the-amazon-web-serv... From Werner Vogels himself. https://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business-Rumor-has-it-that-they-wanted-to-lease-out-their-excess-capacity-outside-of-the-holiday-season-November%E2%80%93January-Is-that-true https://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cl...